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What's New for 2025?
The X3 kicks off a new generation this year with reinvented styling (for better or worse), standard all-wheel drive, tweaked engines that yield much better fuel economy, and updated tech inside. It hasn't grown much — overall length increases by about an inch, while the wheelbase stays the same. As of this writing, no X3 M variant is expected for this generation.
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2025 BMW X3
FAST FACTS
"The freshly redesigned X3's styling may be something of an acquired taste — to us, the previous-generation design was nearly perfect, and this one is not — but the rest of this SUV is fiercely competitive. The sedan-like fuel economy alone could tip the scales in its favor, but of course there's also BMW's latest iDrive tech inside, along with plenty of space for passengers and especially cargo. Want more power than the base four-cylinder turbo provides? The X3 M50's turbo inline-6 is arguably the best six-cylinder engine on the planet, pumping out nearly 400 horsepower with hardly any efficiency loss. Controversial looks aside, the new X3 comes up aces."—Ranked #1 out of 16 Compact Luxury SUVs
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Josh has been reviewing cars professionally since joining Edmunds.com fresh out of grad school in 2008, personally driving most new cars on the market every year since. He also served as the project manager for Edmunds' expert vehicle rankings from their inception in 2018, building the product out from the back end to the front end. Josh is a card-carrying member of the Motor Press Guild and a lifelong car nut who has tested, compared and critiqued a ridiculous number of cars in his career.
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